Us and She: Wenner Might Sell But Fuller Cashes In
In today's New York Post, Keith Kelly reports that Jann Wenner may be trying to sell US Weekly to Condé Nast for $750 million.
That's a lot of scratch for pictures of Katherine Heigl getting Starbucks, but according to Kelly, the magazine is not only "lucrative" (he uses the term twice), but profitable as well:
Not mentioned in the story is Bonnie Fuller, the editor who helped reposition Mr. Wenner's People clone into a pink and day-glo weekly juggernaut. No fear: Ms. Fuller got her own lengthy profile on Sunday in The New York Times 'Business' section. (Though The Times points out that much of Us Weekly's phenomenal growth occurred under Ms. Fuller's successor, Janice Min.)
Writer David Carr checks in with Ms. Fuller—who left Wenner Media in 2003—after her recent departure from AMI and finds that she's on the cusp of becoming her own brand like Oprah—or Ron Popeil. According to Mr. Carr, Russ Pillar, "a former head of the interactive division of Viacom,"
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